Capture of Lanark Outpost

The Capture of Lanark Outpost (May 1297) was an action of William Wallace's uprising against the English occupation of Scotland. Following the Action at Lanark, the English noble Lord Bottoms dispatched 50 men to Lanark to capture Wallace and his rebels, but Wallace's rebel force - augmented by reinforcements from the MacGregor clan - ambushed and slaughtered the 50 English soldiers on their patrol. They then dressed themselves in the English uniforms and returned to the Lanark Outpost, where they took Lord Bottoms by surprise. Lord Bottoms was bludgeoned to death by Thomas Morrison, whose wife had been taken to Bottoms' bed on the night of her marriage to Morrison under the prima noctae law, and the rest of the garrison was spared under the condition that they return to England and tell King Edward the Longshanks that Scotland was now free.